As always with your stories in this series, this is brilliant :) So humorous in the beginning, and then utterly poignant. This made me laugh:
“When I was eight I looked into a hole in the fabric of reality.”
Pete snorted and shook his head. “Well, you do know how to make a bloke feel insignificant.”
Love that!
psst - pinatas and pretzels are very unlikely to be found at a kid's birthday party in Britain. Pretzels are now found in supermarkets, true, but in general Brits find them cardboardy and unappetising; and until I actually Googled it recently I had no idea what a pinata even was!
Then Aunt Caroline's hint about babies having such an effect on the Doctor - oh, yes, so very true, and so much more likely than fics where they merrily start having kids with no thought whatsoever, You're so very right: he was adamantly opposed to doing that again in TDD, and Jenny's brief existence really didn't change anything. He accepted her because she was there and the genetic link was undeniable and he saw so much of himself in her even with her contrasting innocence and warfaring indoctrination, and then she died in his arms.
Beautiful flashback scene with Donna, and I adored this closing line, which brought a lump to my throat: He traced shapes in the condensation on the glass, names crudely drawn in a language there was no one to read.
(My guess is that Rose isn't exactly counting down that biological clock either, so he doesn't have anything to worry about, but still, his fear of talking to her feels very much in character). Looking forward to chapter 2!
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Date: 2009-03-08 08:33 pm (UTC)“When I was eight I looked into a hole in the fabric of reality.”
Pete snorted and shook his head. “Well, you do know how to make a bloke feel insignificant.”
Love that!
psst - pinatas and pretzels are very unlikely to be found at a kid's birthday party in Britain. Pretzels are now found in supermarkets, true, but in general Brits find them cardboardy and unappetising; and until I actually Googled it recently I had no idea what a pinata even was!
Then Aunt Caroline's hint about babies having such an effect on the Doctor - oh, yes, so very true, and so much more likely than fics where they merrily start having kids with no thought whatsoever, You're so very right: he was adamantly opposed to doing that again in TDD, and Jenny's brief existence really didn't change anything. He accepted her because she was there and the genetic link was undeniable and he saw so much of himself in her even with her contrasting innocence and warfaring indoctrination, and then she died in his arms.
Beautiful flashback scene with Donna, and I adored this closing line, which brought a lump to my throat:
He traced shapes in the condensation on the glass, names crudely drawn in a language there was no one to read.
(My guess is that Rose isn't exactly counting down that biological clock either, so he doesn't have anything to worry about, but still, his fear of talking to her feels very much in character). Looking forward to chapter 2!